Steelcase explores designing offices like thriving communities as the solution to meeting the challenges of the evolution of work:

“The parallels between neighborhoods and offices are striking. Who, after all, has a direct interest in creating diverse, vital spaces that foster creativity and serendipity? Employers do.”
– Malcolm Gladwell, Designs for Working, The New Yorker, December 2000

The article makes a number of good points highlighting the need for both private and shared workspaces that foster focus and engagement, much like thoughtfully designed communities. It emphasizes flexible, people-centered layouts that support various work styles and help employees feel connected and productive.

Once you’ve envisioned how you want your workspace to look and feel, we’ll be happy to assist in global shipping and installation of all the necessary equipment and furnishings. In fact, that’s our specialty.

Read more about the concept of community-based office design at the following link: “Community-Based Design: What it is. Why you need it. How to do it.”

Railcars and railroad construction cars are shipped internationally on several types of ships such as breakbulk carriers, RO/RO carriers and containerships. Breakbulk ships lift the railcars from the pier into the hold with ship’s onboard gear. RO/RO carriers load the equipment on rolling mafi platforms that get towed into the hold via the ships massive ramp. Containerships utilize flat rack containers which are containers with no sides and no roof, designed to carry oversized equipment. The loaded flat racks are lifted on board ships with dockside gantry cranes.  Lifting and securing these heavy units is planned with the use of engineering drawings that take into account center of gravity, lifting angles and lashing points. The upcoming Texas and California high speed rail projects will involve these types of shipments.

(Photo credit: ocean_network_express via Instagram: “Special cargo shipment from Europe to Japan”)